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...high levee. Twenty feet down, the shovel uncovered the fully clothed, badly decomposed bodies of three young men, lying side by side in a pocket of red clay. They had been dumped there while the dam was still being built, and in the weeks afterward a local contractor had unknowingly piled earth higher and higher on their primitive graves...
...been working for the Congress of Racial Equality in Meridian, Miss., since January, had volunteered to go up to Oxford to instruct Northern students in voter-registration techniques. Chancy, a slender young man from Meridian, had accompanied him. Goodman was the son of a New York City building contractor and a student at Queens College. All were working with the 400 volunteers sent into Mississippi by COFO to help register Negroes...
...suspended the supplier of nuclear submarines on charges of improperly billing taxpayers $158 million for overhead costs ranging from the kenneling of an executive's dog to the purchase of a company director's kingsize bed. In announcing the sanctions, Navy Secretary John Lehman accused the third largest defense contractor of disregarding the public's trust...
...present, job statistics are used to determine whether a contractor is guilty of illegal discrimination. "With that ruled out," says Richard Seymour, attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a legal assistance group, "the only thing left is when the employer openly discriminates. That kind of evidence is scarce as hen's teeth these days." Last week the executive council of the AFL-CIO reiterated its support for "strong affirmative action." Those who oppose mandatory numerical goals argue that they violate the civil rights of people who lose jobs or promotions in quota systems. "Our concept...
...delays, the promoters broke ground in 1983, although only 3.6% of the on-site engineering had been completed. Not surprisingly, the system has been riddled with defects: 16 of the 173 horizontal guideway beams had to be removed and destroyed in 1984 because of faulty construction. Last month the contractor announced that an additional 14 beams will have to be replaced. Initially budgeted at $137.5 million, the People Mover will now cost an estimated $210 million and will not be ready until the spring...